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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.

Paul Cezanne

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Abstraction Color Drawing Nature Pure
See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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Light Love Misery Oneself Side
Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
PAUL CEZANNE
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Company Goodness
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Change Day People Soul Thinking
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Artist Paint See Unfold
Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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Artist Construction Fall Greatness Himself Limitation Rival
All the theories mess you up inside.
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Mess Theory Yourself
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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Age Destroy Hard Illusion Myself Realization Sensible Willing
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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Art Era God Preparation Study
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Color Draw Expression Literature Painting Perception Sensation Style
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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Direct Imitation Master Preference Willing Yourself
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself

Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.

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